Contest: Create a new Splash Screen for KPhotoAlbum.

You have until Sep 15 midnight to send me a suggestion, and after that
the KPhotoAlbum community will vote on which one will be in the next
release.

Please leave some space for the version number an the status messages in
your image, these are added dynamically during the start of KPhotoAlbum.

Second Snapshot Ready

23 Aug 2006 20:40 +0000

Today I fixed two crashes in KPhotoAlbum, one which occurred when
scrolling in the thumbnail viewer. The other occurred when clicking on the
date bar with the middle or right mouse button.

In addition two smaller issues has been addressed. First it is now
possible to bind keys to rotate the image in the annotation
dialog. Second, clicking on an image in the thumbnail viewer will no longer
start a new viewer, but reuse the old one.

Finally, a new splash screen has been added. This is the beginning of a contest
to create a splash screen for KPhotoAlbum.

First Snapshot of Next KPhotoAlbum version available

22 Aug 2006 19:24 +0000

OK, we are slowly approaching the next release (well I expect 2-3 month
till the actually release, but this also includes all sort of freezes). So
it is time to get started creating snapshots for you all to try.

And there are many good reasons to try out this snapshot, but most
important is of course to get rid of bugs, so you don't have to be bothered
the next year with an annoying bug similar to the selection bugs in the
thumbnail view that must have annoyed you like hell.

In this snapshot you will find these new features and bug fixes compared
to the 2.2 release:

Support for video files. KPhotoAlbum will now find all your videos,
and create thumbnails for them (if you have the right software installed. If it doesn't have a look at MPlayerThumbs).
With the video support you will of course be able to annotate your videos
like you may annotate your images. And of course you may also show your
videos, either in the viewer, or if that does not work (good enought) by
invoking an external viewer from the context menu.

Hierarchies in the browser The browser now shows the
hierarchies among your categories (Las Vegas is in USA kind of
stuff). These hierarchies are also shown in the annotation dialog.

Improved Annotation dialog The annotation dialog now hides
items as you type in the line edit, and that way makes it so much easier to
find the name of a person whom you only remember the first part of.

Selection problems solved. And to the relief of so many of you,
the selection problem from the previous release have now been fixed.

The Icon View stay and gets improved

20 Aug 2006 20:20 +0000

A few weeks ago I was considering throwing the icon view used in the
browser out, but by accident I tried it with a larger icon size, and found
that to be really useful. So now it is possible (in SVN) to configure the
icon size, to e.g. look like this: